It took me about three years, and don't ask how much money, to collect the entire Parker Society series, which is the greatest collection of the writings of the English Reformers. Many of them were subscribed to in the way my Mum had subscribed to the bound Readers Digest volumes. Most of these books which are over one hundred and fifty years old had never even been sliced open. The problem with many contemporary Anglican talking-heads is that they've not read the primary sources themselves and can easily belittle them. Mind you, Comedy Central is not where one expects to finds serious theological discourse to take place, generally.

I was driving in the car this afternoon and that quote came back to mind, "If something is true then Anglicans believe it." It just made me laugh. There's volumes and volumes in that one sentence. It still makes me laugh, indeed, a Dylaneque moment in the life of N.T. Wright. Brilliant.

You know who else tipped over to orthodox Christianity (though she became a Roman Catholic instead) after reading N.T. Wright? Anne Rice. He is the type of theologian we don't see often in the States. They are hard to find because the Episcopal seminaries have been so hostile to the orthodox Anglicans for so long. But one never knows - perhaps the tide is turning.